Christopher Choose’s Teal’c of Chulak stays a fan-favorite “Stargate SG-1” character to today. Even in case you’ve by no means seen “Stargate SG-1,” likelihood is that in case you had been round within the early 2000s you bear in mind the picture of Choose in full Teal’c make-up, full together with his golden brow tattoo, as a part of the cultural wallpaper of the period. Choose went on to seem because the character in two episodes of the spin-off collection, “Stargate Atlantis,” in addition to the direct-to-DVD motion pictures “The Ark of Reality” and “Continuum,” cementing his standing as a series-spanning “Stargate” legend.
Choose additionally pitched a “Stargate” spin-off that may have modified the franchise and was envisioned as, within the actor’s phrases, “Stargate’s tackle ‘Black Panther.'” Because it stands, Teal’c’s closing look was in season 4, episode 17 of “Stargate: Atlantis,” entitled “Halfway,” which debuted the identical yr as “The Ark of Reality” and “Continuum.” “Stargate: Atlantis” was canceled by the Sci-Fi channel following its fifth season and, as such, “Halfway” marked the final yr we noticed Teal’c on-screen. That will need to have been a bummer for Choose, who remains to be best-known for taking part in the Jaffa warrior — or maybe because the voice of Kratos within the “God of Conflict” video video games.
Nonetheless, a minimum of the actor not needed to cope with one notably annoying element about his “Stargate” character, which plagued him ever since “SG-1” wrapped up.
Sustaining continuity ‘irritated’ Christopher Choose
As a Jaffa, Teal’c had a for much longer lifespan than a daily human, and was imbued with powers because of the Goa’uld in his pouch. Throughout “Stargate SG-1,” the character was roughly 100 years previous and within the closing episode of the collection, “Never-ending,” he aged one other 50 years after volunteering to remain exterior of Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapper)’s time reversal subject. By the top of the episode, his further 5 a long time have manifested within the character’s hair, which featured a grey steak on Teal’c’s proper aspect — a characteristic that grew to become an actual ache for Christopher Choose.
Talking to fan website GateWorld, Choose revealed that this grey streak was simply plain “irritating” when it got here to him reprising the function of Teal’c for “Stargate: Atlantis.” The actor defined:
“It is irritating. I really did an episode of ‘Atlantis.’ My hair’s longer, so I went as much as Joe [Mallozzi] and Paulie’s [Mullie, Atlantis Executive Producers] workplace, and Carl [Binder], who wrote a unbelievable script. The talk was I assumed it was going to be whether or not I needed to reduce my hair or not. The talk was whether or not or to not preserve the grey streak in. So I assumed it was going to go away, and Brad and Coop stated “No, no, for continuity for ‘SG-1’ we needed to preserve the grey streak in.”
Choose recalled watching the “Atlantis” episode in query and whereas he “actually beloved” it, the actor admitted, “the factor that bugged me was that rattling grey streak.”